WI WI - Helen Stark, South Milwaukee, 23-26 years old, 12 January 1946

[WIMurderChronicles]

I found out her mother died in 1936, and her younger siblings were put in an orphanage.
Maybe that's why her family believed she'd never abandon her children?

Also, if there ever was a missing person report it might have been lost, and maybe a relative filed a new one in 2013, when she was entered into Namus.
By then there was only one sibling left who was only 13 when Helen disappeared, hence the few details and "sketchy facts."

Mother/ findagrave
1940 census (St Joseph Orphan Asylum)

Dorothy died in 2015. Sophia in 2013. In Sophia’s obit Helen and the three brothers are listed as deceased .

 

[Keiri]

DOB was 18 JAN 1920, not sure why they kept saying unknown.

 

[Keiri]

I have submitted her information to Doe Network to be added

 

[alb1on]

DOB was 18 JAN 1920, not sure why they kept saying unknown.

According to the Wisconsin birth record on Ancestry (under Borkowska rather than Borkowski) that should be 18 Jan 1921. That is also consistent with the age of 9 in the 1930 census (shown as Burkowski!). The 1930 census record must be the right person as the parents and siblings are correct as shown.
If the William P Stark suggested as her husband is correct there is a divorce record on Ancestry from 16 October 1946 in Wisconsin. This seems remarkably fast after she went missing and could mean either some sort of mutual decision to go separate ways or place suspicion on the husband.

 

[Keiri]

Doe Network has added her: https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=4950DFWI